Thank You to NetGalley and Amazon Publishing UK for this ARC!!

Teenager Edie Hudson was nobody’s little darling, which made vanishing all too easy. Two decades later, she’s been forgotten by everyone except her mother, Samantha. When she meets Frances, she at last starts to hope for answers.

Because Frances is obsessed with the mystery too, after finding a photo of her husband with the girl who disappeared.

What really happened all those years ago? And just how dangerous could it be to find out?

Initially I found the book too dense but since premise of this book really intrigued me I went on reading.  I just couldn't rest until I knew what really happened to Edie. The book gets better half way through since by then the author provides us with many suspicious characters and a sense of creepiness with witchcraft!! 

While the ending did not have a wow factor, it was still surprising.

Unfortunately, I agree with other reviewers who found this book a little jumpy and slow-moving. I just wasn't hooked, and that made it harder to continue reading. However, the premise of this book really intrigued me and I'd be open to reading something else by the author.

I haven't read anything before by Daisy Pearce but I will start to after enjoying this book. The book was well written and intriguing. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the copy of The Missing.

The Missing by Daisy Pearce is one I will not forget for a very long time. It's the type of novel that stays with you and provokes you to pick up another Daisy Pearce book. I had never read one of her novels, but after reading this, I became a forever fan. I felt that I was actually there with Samantha Hudson as she searched for her missing daughter. The characters were all flawed, which made them so relatable. I felt like the skeletons in their closets made them real. The twist at the end shocked me and I stayed up way too late to finish. This novel is definitely one I would recommend to any thriller/mystery lover.

Wow, I am speechless! Told in back and forth points of view of both Samantha and Frances and also in two time periods, The Missing does such a great job at portraying the feelings and emotions of two women in two different situations. The grief Samantha is feeling is perfectly coupled with the uncertainty that Frances feels in her marriage. Both women were strong and resilient in their own ways, and I loved it.

The use of imagery in this book had no business being as good as it was. I could read a whole novel just on Daisy Pearce describing a morning sunrise. It was absolutely stunning.

The twist at the end of the book didn’t WOW me, but I didn’t care. I really really enjoyed this book and hope you’ll all give it a go when it comes out!

A missing girl. A loving mother. A betrayed wife's jealousy.
Well this is one of those kind of books that starts off fresh, with gusto, packed full of turns but nothing ever becomes of it as we still wonder what happened to Edie.
Is she a runaway?
Has she been killed?
Will she ever be found?
Folks, the truth is Samantha carries a gun for a reason.
Now you don't have to think to hard on that reasoning but Frances Jane has gone to the grave and someone out there knows the truth.
What's up with this William -the son - which is a whole other interesting twister.
Well the storm is brewing-best be off-but hope you enjoy.
Thank you to Daisy, the pub, NetGalley, and Amazon Kindle for this ARC in exchange for this honest review.

This book just was not for me. From the beginning I just could not get into the story - it felt very flat and forced. It didn’t hold my attention and the characters were all pretty unlikable.  There weren’t any real big surprises and the ending was pretty ho-hum. I really enjoy a good mystery/thriller but this one just didn’t pass muster.

Wow! It’s going to take me a while to recover from this book - in a really, really good way!!

This story was packed with a punch and a half! I devoured it and was thinking about the story even when I didn’t have the book in my hands... and when that happens, YOU KNOW IT’S GOOD! There were so many characters involved - suspicious, crazy, and vengeful ones, and twists and turns at every chapter.

The Missing is about a rebellious 15-year-old girl named Elizabeth (Edie), who leaves home one day and never returns. Her mom, Samantha, stops at nothing, even decades later after she goes missing, to figure out what happened to her. Is she dead? Is she missing? Is she living in another town with a new family?

Meanwhile, Francis, the wife of a man that supposedly has a connection to Edie is introduced.

When Francis and Samantha accidentally meet, the two stories collide, turning it into a whirlwind of psychological craziness!
Some of the characters in the story were not likable and that’s what made me like them more. I had a genuine hate for some of them but that was the whole point in my opinion!

It was a gripping page turner that was suspenseful and fast-paced. This was my first novel written by Daisy Pearce and it definitely won’t be my last!

If you like psychological thrillers, go get this book on pre-order ASAP!

Solid story. I liked this book a lot. 

I don't want to give too much away, as to keep the suspense for future readers, but this had me riding a whirlwind of theories and still managed to shock me.

The narrative is told on Samantha's and Frances' "then and now" perspectives. Their paths cross over a comon subject: Edie's (Samantha's daughter) disappearance 20 years earlier.

We have a few unique characters, their distinct traits well explored enough to peak our interest and make us suspicious of each and everyone one of them. I think the author threw some misleading hints on there, to keep us guessing. Or maybe I was just reading too much into it. 

I was soooo wrong about where this was going most of the time. A good mystery for sure.

Thanks NetGalley and Amazon Publishing UK, for sending me this ARC in exchange for my honest review!

This book started off great but it dragged on a bit. and it took a long time to get to the actual story behind it all.

Firstly, thank you to NetGalley and Amazon Publishing UK for an Advanced Release Copy in exchange for my unbiased review.

For the first few chapters I was turning the pages quickly and eagerly, both stories sounded so intriguing and promised a decent thriller that I was so excited to read and interested as to how the two stories will connect.  I was really connected to the mothers experience and heartbreak and I thought the content was very relevant with the marriage troubles, I can imagine that this type of issue is becoming more common each day. 

However I feel that it lost its way. Whilst the two stories did come together and in an interesting way, I felt that the novel became too heavily focused on the first story and the heat surrounding the marriage troubles fizzled away, which was I thought was quite exciting as the character began investigating to begin with. That could have been built up and held out for longer with more thoughts on her emotions, I thought. There were moments where I felt that this was becoming a bit of a YA story so far as the rattlesnakes were involved and it was never quite explored as to why these girls had the hold they did on their teachers and parents. It just sounded like kids getting away with what they wanted to without any consequence.

I found myself quite irritated at one characters comment about them being ‘lactose intolerant’ - it added absolutely nothing to the story and I didn’t understand (as someone that is) what it was meant to convey about the character and why the author put it there. The character was literally just arranging to meet for coffee. 

The ending was unrealistic in line with the rest of the story in my opinion, I personally think the wrong characters were chosen. There were many red herrings in the novel and I didn’t expect the ending to be as it was (and the chase was a good element) but I didn’t believe that the people involved where to blame and I didn’t buy the reason why. 

Overall, I felt it was a bit of an average read. It’s a shame because I felt it was on the right path but just took some turns that didn’t work.

While this dragged at times, I enjoyed it.  It had me guessing right up to the end about who the killer was & why they did it.

Thanks to Amazon Publishing UK & NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

With thanks to Netgalley and Amazon for this ARC in exchange for an open and honest review.

Divorced mother of one Samantha Hudson struggled to get on with her troubled teenage daughter Edie  After a violent row with her mother. Edie mysteriously disappeared in a cemetery.  Despite a police investigation Edie was never seen again.

Twenty years later therapist Frances Thorn found a picture of Edie and her husband William as teenagers.  She became intrigued when William's brother begged her not to tell William she had seen the picture.  Frances tracked down a school friend of  Edie who mentioned that William was Edie`s ex boyfriend.  She then described the night Edie vanished in the cemetery.   

When Samantha found out Frances was asking about Edie she was initially suspicious.  However she was soon won over when she discovered Frances was now married to William.

The plot were beautifully descriptive and I could imagine myself in that dark graveyard.  The story was told from Samantha twenty years earlier and Samantha and Frances in the present.

The plot was a slow burner with a hint of menace at times.  Although I enjoyed the story it left me with unanswered questions which annoyed me.  For instance I don't want to reveal any spoilers but it was never revealed how Frances turned her life around and became a therapist.

I think this was a promising debut book and I look forward to reading more from Daisy Pearce in the future.

Thank you Netgalley for sharing this book with me.  
This book took me a while to get into the story.  I found the beginning very confusing.  It started to get interesting after half the book and then it was impossible to stop reading.  Very interesting the development of the story.

This was an interesting mystery but reading it fell a little flat for me.  Though the storyline was good, I just had trouble getting into it and I couldn't put my finger on why.  It took me a while to finish it because I wasn't motivated to pick it back up.  It centers on Samantha, whose 15-yr-old daughter Edie went missing 18 years ago.  Samantha is still searching for answers, but doesn't get a ton of support from those around her.  Enter Frances, the wife of the guy who was dating Edie at the time;  Frances stumbles upon a picture of Edie and wants to find out more.  Frances and Samantha end up forming an unlikely friendship, and eventually figure out what happened all those years ago.

I felt sorry for Samantha but was somewhat frustrated that after all of these years, she was still asking the same questions- I wanted her to either move on or at least find new ways to investigate what happened.  There were also things that she never fully looked into until Frances came along, which seemed hard to believe when her entire being revolved around figuring out what happened to her daughter.  Frances, on the other hand, was someone I never really felt like I got to know- I think I liked her but didn't feel like I understood her. .

The ending was a surprise and was pretty action packed when the mystery is solved.  The pace of the book picked up greatly at that point.

All in all, I like being surprised and thought the ending of this book was good, but didn't fully immerse myself in this book.  

Thanks to Netgalley for providing me a copy of the book in exchange for an honest review.

I really had high hopes for this book and unfortunately it did not deliver. The story did not seem to gel and in my opinion rather long winded. Saying that I am sure other readers will enjoy it more just not for me. 
Thanks to Amazon Publishing UK and Netgalley for the ARC.

Oh what an incredible book. An absolutely brilliant story. I totally devoured this. It’s hard to describe the plot without spoiling it, I loved the title and cover of the story, requesting for this reason. And I’m so glad I did. A brilliant psychological thriller. A stand out from the rest. Highly recommended xx

A mother teenage daughter went missing two decades ago is desperate – understandably – for answers. But she’s not the only one who wonders about the case and a photograph could lead to a dangerous, life changing revelation. A tautly written read that made you empathise with Samantha, the missing girl’s mother.

Loved this book and could not put it down. These are the type of books I think should be made into television shows more often. Truly, it is just that good. I would suggest this to all people who want a great story.

The Missing by Daisy Pearce was one of those stories that I wanted to love, but for me, it fell a little flat.  The storylines were easy enough to follow, but I wanted the mom of the missing girl to be able to move on.  She never accepted her new reality and I guess if one ever had a child go missing, it would be extremely difficult to do.  She found an unlikely ally in the wife of the missing's friend/boyfriend from high school.  Soon, they both become obsessed with knowing what happened.
I appreciated the flow of the writing.  It kept me reading until the end.  I just wanted the mom to finally have her closure and it seemed like it took forever to get. Thank you to #netgalley #amazonpublishinguk for this advanced copy.  The book is set to be published on June 9, 2020.